In the news today: No matter how grotesque the behavior of House Republicans has gotten—or how dangerous—they continue to have the apparent full support of their party leaders. Ever-odious Rep. Paul Gosar was nearly giddy in promoting a new animated clip depicting him attacking and killing a fellow member of Congress; that sort of thing would get you fired and quite possibly arrested in any other workplace in America.
It can be tough to separate the art from the artist, particularly when the artist has separated his own brain stem from his cerebral cortex. Such is the case with Irish rock legend Van Morrison, who’s embraced the COVID-19 death cult with the kind of vigor Donald Trump might embrace a big slab of rotisserie gyro meat in the bathroom stall of a Coney Island Greek restaurant at 3 AM on a random Tuesday.
Trump is unlikely to succeed on the merits of his claims and cannot show how the release of public documents harms him, the U.S. District Court judge ruled.
In the final vote count for the so-called “bipartisan” infrastructure bill now sailing towards President Joe Biden’s desk to become the law of the land, there were six Democratic “no” votes—all from a subset of House Democrats who Fox News considers equally interchangeable whenever it’s time to demonize the Democratic Party. They were Reps.
The Washington Post has published a quasi-profile of Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. It is a halfhearted attempt at pretending that the man who led the Republican Party to do nothing except deregulate and lower taxes on the wealthiest Americans and corporations while fostering the rabid bigotry of a disenfranchisement-fearing white voter base (which led to electing Donald Trump) is somehow in a weird place now.
As chair of the Commerce, Science, and Transportation committee, Sen. Maria Cantwell has a lot of work to do on nominations and not much time to do it. There are several weeks of purely concentrated hell before the Senate, starting when they return next week (they’re taking this week off) and then resuming again after they take the Thanksgiving week off.
Although the video shows the Arizona Republican slashing the congresswoman, he claimed it simply depicted “a battle between lawful and unlawful policies.
Gregory McMichael and the other defendants are claiming self-defense, but shifting stories on the day of the fatal shooting might damage their argument.
The committee’s announcement comes just one day after it subpoenaed six others who worked with former President Donald Trump.
American exceptionalism can sometimes be quite bleak: The United States is the only wealthy country in the world without a national program for paid parental leave.The U.S.’s best chance yet of giving up this dismal distinction might be slipping away. The $1.
“I didn’t think he was a genius, but I didn’t think he was that stupid,” the conservative pundit griped in a podcast with Andrew Sullivan.
Updated at 9:34 p.m. ET on November 9, 2021.About six hours after the polls closed on Election Day, the Associated Press made a call in the close race for Virginia governor: Democrat Terry McAuliffe had lost. McAuliffe conceded Wednesday morning, when it became clear he had no realistic path to victory.The same has not happened in New Jersey, where the Democratic incumbent, Phil Murphy, defeated the Republican Jack Ciattarelli, a former state assemblyman.
Stella Moris, partner of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, says British authorities have so far blocked attempts for her and Assange to marry while he is being held in Belmarsh prison. Supporters have also raised concerns Assange has become suicidal. “They are killing him. If he dies, it is because they are killing him,” Moris says. “They are torturing him to death.
Britain’s High Court is expected to decide in the coming weeks whether to extradite WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange to the United States, where he faces up to 175 years in prison under espionage charges for publishing classified documents exposing U.S. war crimes.
Climate activists protested outside the U.N. climate summit in Glasgow Monday spotlighting the role of the U.S. military in fueling the climate crisis. The Costs of War project estimates the military produced around 1.2 billion metric tons of carbon emissions between 2001 and 2017, with nearly a third coming from U.S. wars overseas.
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In the lead-up to the bicentennial of American independence in 1976, a graduate student sent a proposal to an editor at a trade publisher in New York.
Listen and subscribe: Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Stitcher | Google | Pocket CastsAs we wind down this series, a paradox remains in our pursuit of happiness: Joy comes to those who have known pain. In order to overcome struggle—breakups, illness, even death—we must first accept and acknowledge its inevitability. Exploring the darkness of our suffering may seem counterintuitive, but often it’s the only way to see the light.In this week’s episode, Arthur C.
The prospect of hitting businesses with new testing costs as many struggle to staff back up could harden opposition to Biden’s plan, and hamper the president’s latest push to end the pandemic.
“It’s a necessary step to accelerate our pathway out of the pandemic,” Vivek Murthy said.
Operation Warp Speed poured billions into Moderna and agreed not to share its vaccines abroad. Now the company is holding up the race to vaccinate low-income countries.
CDC Director Rochelle Walensky quickly endorsed the use of shots, which could become available as early as Wednesday.
Only about 34 percent of pregnant adults are fully vaccinated and more than 200 have died of the virus, according to the CDC.
Plummeting stock prices and lack of federal action has soured investors
“This recovery is faster, stronger, fairer and wider than almost anyone could have predicted,” Biden said.
The long-awaited move signals both optimism about the pace of job growth and wariness about price surges that have pushed inflation up to its highest level in decades.
Weaker-than-projected economic growth in the last quarter, a jobs slowdown and supply chain snags that are likely to continue into next year are sending warning signs for the economy.
It’s not just Republicans who are assigning responsibility to the administration for the rocky economic recovery, polls show.
ABC’s Jonathan Karl predicts the House select 6 committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will be looking to get hold of this next.
In the news today: As Ted Cruz grouses that teaching children about vaccination amounts to “propaganda,” fellow Senate seditionist Josh Hawley says he’ll be adopting “masculinity” as his new central political theme.
The far-right Arizona lawmaker posted an anti-immigration meme that appeared to endorse violence against Democrats.